Learning English > Reading Text

English text contains many abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols that are not words, as well as formatting conventions that are not obvious to a language learner. To read and speak from text, learners must know how to interpret these features of text.
For example,

Text Says

You Should Say

Do NOT Say

125 apples

a hundred and twenty five apples

one twenty five apples

125 Main St.

one twenty five Main St.

a hundred and twenty five Main Street

It's 1:00

It's one o'clock.

It's 1:00 AM

It's one A M

It's one o'clock AM

1:25 AM

one twenty five A M.

Dr. Martin Luther King Dr.

Doctor Martin Luther King Drive

Princeton, NJ

Princeton, New Jersey

$1.00

one dollar

dollar one one dollar and zero cents

We provide software to help English language learners by translating such text into normal English words.